Check List 8(5): 886-888, doi: 10.15560/8.5.886
Diptera, Ceratopogonidae Newman, 1834: New records of Biting and Predaceous midges from Iberá wetlands, Argentina
Gustavo R. Spinelli‡,
Pablo I. Marino§,
Melina Mauad| ‡ Museo de La Plata Instituto de Limnología “Dr. Raúl A. Ringuelet”, Argentina§ Museo de La Plata, Argentina| Instituto de Limnología “Dr. Raúl A. Ringuelet”, Argentina
Corresponding author:
Gustavo Spinelli
(
grspinelli@gmail.com
)
© 2017 Gustavo Spinelli, Pablo Marino, Melina Mauad. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Spinelli G, Marino P, Mauad M (2012) Diptera, Ceratopogonidae Newman, 1834: New records of Biting and Predaceous midges from Iberá wetlands, Argentina. Check List 8(5): 886-888. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.5.886 | |
Abstract
The first Argentina records of four species of biting and predaceous midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are provided from the Iberá wetlands in Corrientes Province: Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) unica Bystrak and Wirth, Echinohelea blantoni Wirth, Neobezzia fittkaui Wirth and Ratanaworabhan and Paryphoconus grandis Macfie. This is the first record of the predaceous midge genus, Echinohelea Macfie, from Argentina.